F or six decades and counting, John Cale has lived on the edge of the avant-garde. A classically trained violist, he spent the mid-Sixties playing hours of drones with minimalist composer La Monte ...
There would be no Velvet Underground without John Cale, who heard an aspiring folkie named Lou Reed strum a song called “Heroin” in 1965 and immediately grasped its avant-garde potential. Together, ...
A Lou Reed singles album compiling his songwriting before his tenure in The Velvet Underground is set to be released.‘Why Don’t You Smile Now: Lou Reed at Pickwick Records 1964-65’ is set to drop on..